| 1 | Name: | Professor Hans E. Mayer | |
| Institution: | University of Kiel, Germany | ||
| Year Elected: | 1978 | ||
| Class: | 4. Humanities | ||
| Subdivision: | 404a | ||
| Residency: | International | ||
| Living? : | Living | ||
| Birth Date: | 1932 | ||
Hans Eberhard Mayer is Professor of Medieval and Modern History Emeritus at the University of Kiel, Germany, where he has taught since 1967. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Innsbruck, Austria in 1955 and for the following 12 years was affiliated with the German Institute for Medieval Research. Among the leading medievalists in Germany, Dr. Mayer is a particularly outstanding historian of the European Crusades. He is the author of the definitive text on the subject, The Crusades, of which a second edition was published in 1997. | |||